If You Only Had These Choices, Who Would You Hire As The Blazer's Coach?

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Who Would It Be?

  • Nate McMillan

    Votes: 14 42.4%

  • Terry Porter

    Votes: 13 39.4%

  • Erik Spoelstra

    Votes: 6 18.2%
  • Total voters
    33

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Jon? You mean Erik?

I would take neither. Spoelstra is alright, but him losing his players' respect so early in Miami is cause for concern. Porter was a terrible coach in Phoenix. I think he's worse than Nate in the whole preparation and technical side.

The only thing stopping me from going into full on Fire Nate mode now is the scary thought of Bernie Bickerstaff stepping in as our head coach. SMH.
 
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You mean Erik Spoelstra....right? Although I think John could do a better job than Nate
 
I heard Duds is gonna' try to be an NBA coach...
 
Nikolokolus said:
I have no idea.
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I thought I had read he was in the running. Personally, I don't think he was a very good head coach...despite the bad rap he received in Phoenix. He wasn't very good in Milwaukee.

I think Spoelstra has potential.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
Do you think there's no reason the best gig he could get was a local analyst job?
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He's actually in the 2nd to last year of his contract with the Suns.

By being an analyst with the Blazers he can get paid for both gigs.
 
MickZagger said:
Pop's right hand man, Mike Budenholzer.
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Props for bringing up a new name rather than the retreads we usually peddle out as Nate's replacements.

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2009/4/10/829790/the-case-for-mike-budenholzer

I looked him up, and he seems to have everything that we're looking for:
- winning experience
- education from the best (Pop)
- technical aptitude and good understanding of the game
- not afraid of putting players in the their place ( I can't recall the last time Nate berated or made an example of Roy/Aldridge, whereas Pop does it all the time with guys like Manu and TP. That goes a long way in getting everyone on the team to buy into a concept, rather than having double standards like Nate).
 
yuyuza1 said:
Props for bringing up a new name rather than the retreads we usually peddle out as Nate's replacements.

http://www.sactownroyalty.com/2009/4/10/829790/the-case-for-mike-budenholzer

I looked him up, and he seems to have everything that we're looking for:
- winning experience
- education from the best (Pop)
- technical aptitude and good understanding of the game
- not afraid of putting players in the their place ( I can't recall the last time Nate berated or made an example of Roy/Aldridge, whereas Pop does it all the time with guys like Manu and TP. That goes a long way in getting everyone on the team to buy into a concept, rather than having double standards like Nate).
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Yeah, I've been enamored with Budenholzer for a couple years now. I think he's the next hot coach in the NBA. Kind of how I felt about Thibedou.

Budenholzer is supposed to be a master at game planning for opponents and worked his ass off to get up the ranks. I think I read somewhere that he's the highest paid assistant because Pop realizes how important he is.
 
Terry Porter because ES isn't really available and Nate has already failed.
 
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